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The reticence from Goldman was particularly jarring given that last week several major Wall Street chieftains, including Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase, and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, were more direct in their assessment of the turmoil.
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Rob Copeland, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The first Aiel chieftain to set foot in Rhuidean, a city built by the Aes Sedai to show the Aiel their shameful past as oathbreakers.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
For that, Libya had contracted with a Chinese firm to build a 25-mile canal to irrigate rice fields on the land, which cuts through Sangha's ancestral territory, but the local people aren't allowed to use the water, said Sidiki Coulibaly, a chieftain from Finn village.
—Chris Arsenault, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2015
Huang’s unapologetic stance on AI is bracing in its way, especially in contrast with the public hand-wringing of many AI chieftains, fretting about the dangers of their LLMs while continuing to develop them.
—James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
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Rob Copeland, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The first Aiel chieftain to set foot in Rhuidean, a city built by the Aes Sedai to show the Aiel their shameful past as oathbreakers.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
For that, Libya had contracted with a Chinese firm to build a 25-mile canal to irrigate rice fields on the land, which cuts through Sangha's ancestral territory, but the local people aren't allowed to use the water, said Sidiki Coulibaly, a chieftain from Finn village.
—Chris Arsenault, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2015
Huang’s unapologetic stance on AI is bracing in its way, especially in contrast with the public hand-wringing of many AI chieftains, fretting about the dangers of their LLMs while continuing to develop them.
—James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Chieftain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chieftain. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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